
Maina wa Njuguna
As I usually say, no one can give what one does not have. You cannot expect blood from a stone, right! So, why would anyone exercising common sense expect anything different from the same ruling elites that have failed to deliver time and time again? It time to put an end to regurgitation.
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again each time expecting a different result.
Kenya like many African countries is in dire need for a paradigm shift in leadership, messing with the edges will not work, it is time for an overhaul, period! Much needed leaders of scrupulous character are a very rare find especially in politics.
The continent’s never ending woes are endemic of the shear incompetence, riddled with entrenched corruption of the ruling class elite, a colone and nexus of former colonial imperialists, who employ the same arrogance, attitudes, entitlement, and tactics to lord over the common African masses.

Kleptocracy on the continent is the name of the game. How can one explain how wealthy a bunch of these leaders became in no time after assuming leadership roles? One cannot trace tangible processes of how wealth was created in very short periods of time.
Where did the massive capital come from? Where were the investments made earning very hefty returns? Were the saving accounts performing above average, an outlier compared to others? How was debt managed or was it even an issue in the first place?
Don’t tell me what you’ll do, show me what you’ve done in the past. This is the foundermental question every African voter should ask before casting a vote for anyone vying for any leadership position. Maybe it is time to take a look at enterpernuers with a truck record of building successful businesses and companies in the private sector.
Leadership experience in failed African governments is the wrong criteria when choosing new administrators. Leaders are visionary, bold and agents of change. Most of these people are managers, bad managers indeed.
Promises are cheap and anyone can make them. What one cannot lie about is what one has accomplished. That gives credence to promises being made.
The quality of life in any country is directly proportional to the quality of leadership within its boundaries.
The current economic challenges in Kenya are as a result of choices made by the same Kenyan ‘leaders’ (bad managers) in last administrations, 10 years and more.
The prior and present country’s administrations in cahoot with the Kenyan parliament had been on borrowing and spending spree for quite a while.
Just like individuals and families, countries have budgets which should be constrained depending on growth and revenue projections.
A country’s ecomomy is dependent on enacted fiscal policies and the existing business climate. Fiscal policies are how a government spends money and the tax policies in place to achieve policy goals.
Therefore, if a country borrows large amounts of money, has bad fiscal policies (e.g. very high taxation rates), has enabled bad business climate (e.g. a culture of corruption, failure of service deliverables), the economy will likely stagnate and in many cases shrink.
This would make it very difficult for such a government to provide basic services such as education, healthcare, and security, let a lone making payments with faltering, unstable local currencies towards international debts that are pegged to the world’s hard currencies.
GLOBAL ENABLERS AND FUNDERS
How can one explain how debt has accumulated to the tune of three quarters (75%) of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in such a short time?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), The World Bank and some Western countries have aided and abetted humongous loans some of which cannot be accounted for.
What about Western countries turning a blind eye to African ‘elite’ investors who are on a shopping binge with billions of dollars worth of loot? These days it doesn’t take much to figure siphoned resources from checkered individuals buying multimillion dollars worth of properties in Europe and North America among other investments from cash strapped African countries.
We don’t need to go outside Africa to learn and emulate countries that are thriving because of sound fiscal policies and a conducive climate for businesses to thrive thereby creating jobs and wealth for citizens and the country at large.
BOTSWANA 🇧🇼
Kenyan and other African leaders need to learn from Botswana. They need to learn the very basics of leadership, why corruption is destructive, why embezzlement of public resources is disastrous and a betrayal of public trust that leads to poverty and death. Leadership is about service to others, not about self-aggrandizement.
Or better yet, Africa needs an informed citizenry, the foundation of any successful democratic republic. A knowledgeable base of African voters would understand why gender based violence, tribalism, or religious sectarianism are detrimental to their well-being, that of a cohesive and prosperous nation.

“The objective of Botswana’s fiscal policy is to ensure macroeconomic stability. The government has developed a budget sustainability ratio measured by the extent to which government’s non-investment recurrent expenditures are being financed by recurring sustainable revenues.” – African Development Bank (AfDB).
AFRICAN COUNTRIES LADEN OR NOT LADEN WITH FOREIGN DEBT:https://www.instagram.com/p/C75seMoArx3/?igsh=d3FseDk5d2pmdHZv
“While other African governments preferred collectivism and imposed socialist economic policies that led to poverty and corruption, Botswana instead chose pro-market policies such as low income tax, low corporate tax, and low tariffs.” – Students For Liberty.
I tip my hat 👒 to African Gen-Zs and millennials who seem to better understand than the older generations that values such as competence, selflessness, and unity are the basic units for prosperity. These new crop of African youth have renewed my faith and hope that maybe, just maybe, better days lay ahead.
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